Dear lute list members, during the recent discussion on facsimiles, copyright and so on somebody mentioned that one normally has to sign a contract with the library owning a original source, restricting what one may do with the copy.
I wonder what kind of restrictions you have experienced. I would classify restrictions in these groups: - Restrictions concerning the copying of the facsimile for private or public purposes. - Restrictions in copying or editing the music itself (not the graphical original) - Restrictions in performing the music. Also, has anybody been completely denied to obtain a copy from an original source, because there was already a modern edition? This situation seems to exist, as one can see from a posting by Albert Reyerman form April 2002, that I copied at the end of this message. My last and most important question: did anybody every question wether such restrictions might be illegal in case of public libraries? For instance, can a University really decide to give the right to publish one of their sources exclusively to one person? Best wishes, Stefan Ecke This was Albert Reyerman's mail: > Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:36:08 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Albert Reyerman TREE EDITION <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: copiyrights > > > Open letter to Goeran Corona ( and others, to > whose it may concern) > > > by Albert Reyerman > TREE EDITION > > > On the lutenet there is a recent dicussion on > copyright. > I would like to make a little contribution to that > > discussion > (please forgive me for my poor English). > > Why do I write this open letter to Goeran Corona? > I believe to have two very good reasons: > 1) it seems, that Goeran Corona has stolen his > work from other peoples work and labor > This is illegal. > 2) Goeran Corona has made an extremely bad job on > his transcriptions. > He serves the people looking for high quality lute > music very badly. > > As an example: I found two pieces on the web, ent. > > by Goeran Corona: > RONDEAU and PRELUDE by CONRADI, two pieces for > Baroque Lute, > transcribed probably by him using a tablature > setting program. > > I know, that these two pieces come from the > publication: > Johann Gottfried Conradi: Neue Lautenst�cke, > Frankfurt an der Oder, 1724. > now in the posession of The Leipzig Music Library. > > This is the only known source today. > > I have been in Leipzig yesterday and asked the > director of the Music Library wether she had given > > the > original print to Goeran Corona for making > facsimiles or had given permission to publish the > pieces. > The answer was: of course not. > The only one to hold the publishing rights for > Conradi is TREE EDITION. > > So I ask you, Goeran Corona: > - where you did you make your transciptions from > (you didn�t have access to the original source) > - if you made it from other sources e.g. a > facsimile by TREE or whatsoever: > please show me your publication permit. > (anybody can see the TREE publication permit as a > .pdf file attached to this email) > > First reason: Goeran Corona has got no permission > from TREE to publish these pieces: > I ask him and the > people who publish the web site to REMOVE > the files from the > website IMMEDIATELY!!! > > The second reason is equally serious: > I compared Goeran Corona�s transcription to the > original. > In the RONDEAU, which is a very small piece > fitting generously to a single page > I found 31 mistakes!!! Mr. Corona is even unable > to put the bar lines into the correct place: > in this small pice he six times set a bar line to > the false place!!! > > In the PRELUDE there is NO measure without > mistakes: the first measure has 10 !!! mistakes. > > Bad work, Mr. Corona. Very bad work.> > Don�t forget to remove the files, at least > untill May 1rst, 2002 > The Leipzig Music Library is not amused. > Libraries are institutions with influence. And > lawyers. > > > Waiting for yours answers > > Albert Reyerman > TREE EDITION
